The Mind's Arrows: Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology by Clark Glymour (Hardcover, 2001)

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In recent years, small groups of statisticians, computer scientists, and philosophers have developed an account of how partial causal knowledge can be used to compute the effect of actions and how causal relations can be learned, at least by computers. The representations used in the emerging theory are causal Bayes nets or graphical causal models. This title provides an informal introduction to the basic assumptions, algorithms, and techniques of causal Bayes nets and graphical causal models in the context of psychological examples. It demonstrates their potential as a powerful tool for guiding experimental inquiry and for interpreting results in developmental psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, psychometrics, social psychology, and studies of adult judgment. Using Bayes net techniques, Glymour suggests novel experiments to distinguish among theories of human causal learning and reanalyzes various experimental results that have been interpreted or misinterpreted - without the benefit of Bayes nets and graphical causal models. The capstone illustration is an analysis of the methods used in Herrnstein and Murray's book The Bell Curve ; Glymour argues that new, more reliable methods of data analysis, based on Bayes nets representations, would lead to very different conclusions from those advocated by Herrnstein and Murray.

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PublisherMIT Press LTD
ISBN-139780262072205
eBay Product ID (ePID)88965407

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Number of Pages240 Pages
Publication NameThe Mind's Arrows: Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaDevelopmental Psychology
AuthorClark Glymour
SeriesA Bradford Book
FormatHardcover

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Item Height229 mm
Item Weight522 g
Item Width152 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorClark Glymour

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